Summary
Tristan Farmer is a Senior Software Engineer based in Los Angeles with over 11 years of experience designing and modernizing backend systems and developer workflows. He specializes in converting monoliths to distributed architectures and improving developer experience through creative tooling—authoring security auto-configuration, CLI credential scrubbing, and automated release-note tooling that earned internal recognition. Comfortable across Java, Kotlin, Go, Node, Spring Boot, and cloud-native stacks, Tristan has repeatedly driven migrations, templating, and CI/CD improvements at large media and consumer companies. He pairs hands-on implementation with pragmatic architecture diagrams and proofs-of-concept to help teams adopt GraphQL, serverless patterns, and containerized microservices. Colleagues describe him as passionate and humble, with a practical mindset that treats mistakes as lessons and focuses on durable, team-friendly solutions.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
A.A., A.A. Digital Design & Production 2007, A.A., A.A. Digital Design & Production 2007 at College of the Desert
University of California, Irvine